President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered the restoration of the names of several US military bases that honored ...

Francis Richard Lubbock was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1815 to Dr. Henry and Ann Lubbock. While still an infant, ...

Nearly forty years ago National Parks Service historian Chris Calkins wrote a two-volume work on the Battle of Appomattox and its aftermath. In 2023 Savas Beatie issued a revised edition of the first ...

Grafton Ghost Town sits 3.5 miles from Highway 9 through Rockville, on the south bank of the Virgin River. Before Hollywood ...

All of the essays are well written, deeply researched, and throw considerable light on hitherto obscure corners of the war. One, “Capitals and Communities in War and Revolution,” examines the wartime ...

Two orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life.  The story is common in the annals of the frontier. ...

Usually, a civil war is one where all of the fighting ... extreme internal divisions and internecine battles for their very being. Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the ...

In 1861, amid the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus ... Maryland’s history is reminding the country—these aren’t just legal battles. They’re about who we are, and what we’re ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month ... its disintegration. In “1861: The Lost Peace ...